Brooklyn Museum Announces Major Fall 2026 Exhibition Slate
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — July 1, 2026 —
The Brooklyn Museum has announced an ambitious slate of fall 2026 exhibitions and installations spanning manga art, European modernism, Indigenous craft traditions, avant-garde fashion, and contemporary photography. The season opens in October with several simultaneous exhibitions, offering collectors and art enthusiasts an unusually rich opportunity to engage with historically significant objects across a wide range of media and cultures.
Headlining the season is ‘Art of Manga’ (October 3, 2026 – January 31, 2027), the first major exhibition in the Americas to treat manga as a serious fine art form. Making its East Coast debut in the Museum’s Great Hall, the show presents more than 600 original drawings by influential manga artists including Takahashi Rumiko, Araki Hirohiko, and Oda Eiichiro, with works drawn from beloved series such as ‘Inuyasha,’ ‘JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure,’ and ‘ONE PIECE.’ The companion installation ‘Manga Before Manga: Japanese Art from the Collection’ (October 3, 2026 – January 31, 2027) provides essential historical context through twenty-one Brooklyn Museum collection objects, including nineteenth-century printed sketchbooks among the earliest works recognized as manga, a fifteenth-century narrative handscroll, and porcelain sculptures. Both presentations are organized by Joan Cummins, Curatorial Chair and Lisa and Bernard Selz Senior Curator, Asian Art.
Also opening in October, ‘Cézanne to Modigliani: Gifts of Modern Art from the Pearlman Collection’ (October 2, 2026 – April 18, 2027) brings more than fifty European masterworks to view, including paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by Paul Cézanne, Amedeo Modigliani, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Chaim Soutine. The Brooklyn Museum received twenty-nine of the Pearlman works, representing one of the most significant gifts of European art in the institution’s history. On the same date, the Museum’s Center for Feminist Art opens ‘Hopi Kachina Dolls: Blessings for a Balanced World’ (October 2, 2026 – June 27, 2027), the first exhibition to examine the kachina doll tradition from the perspective of Hopi girls and women, featuring fifty-three dolls alongside pottery, baskets, and jewelry by Hopi women artists.
Rounding out the fall program, ‘Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses,’ organized by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, continues through December 6, 2026, marking the Dutch designer’s first major New York exhibition and furthering the Brooklyn Museum’s long record of landmark fashion presentations. The Museum’s lobby hosts ‘Michael Richards: Free F’All’ (September 11, 2026 – June 6, 2027), a sculpture honoring the Tuskegee Airmen and commemorating the 25th anniversary of September 11, 2001, when Richards himself lost his life. Japanese photographer Mika Ninagawa brings her first immersive U.S. installation, ‘Feel the Flow(ers),’ to the Museum’s Education Gallery beginning in October 2026, presented in conjunction with ‘Art of Manga’ as a reflection on that medium’s enduring influence on contemporary visual culture.
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